Last of the US Depression babies, before the US entered World War II, born in northwest Ohio, relocating with family during the war years to southern Hillsdale,Michigan, home to Will Carleton, poet, and Hillsdale College. The post-war recession caused us to relocate to the homestead of our great-grandmother's family, near Ney, OH in the 1950s. Sputnik's satellite launch changed our local school's education plans and our lives. Living in the Pacific Northwest with cool summer nights...

Last of the US Depression babies, before the US entered World War II, born in northwest Ohio, relocating with family during the war years to southern Hillsdale,Michigan, home to Will Carleton, poet, and Hillsdale College. The post-war recession caused us to relocate to the homestead of our great-grandmother's family, near Ney, OH in the 1950s. Sputnik's satellite launch changed our local school's education plans and our lives. Living in the Pacific Northwest with cool summer nights...